The politics of the past in Zimbabwe : a critical theory of global society and politics / edited by Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi, Amanda Hammar.
| Other author | Rasch, Astrid, editor. |
| Other author | Niemi, Minna Johanna, editor. |
| Other author | Hammar, Amanda, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] |
| Description | xiii, 281 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1574-6925 African-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (Series) ; v. 35. ^A601811 |
| Contents | Past as political present in Zimbabwe : an introduction / Astrid Rasch, Amanda Hammar, and Minna Johanna Niemi, page 1 -- 1. Exhumations as performance : bones as provokers and invokers of the past in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe / Shari Eppel, page 29 -- 2. The uses and abuses of cultural and liberation heritage in Zimbabwe's political present / Simbarashe Shadreck Chitima, Thomas Panganayi Thondhlana, and Shadreck Chirikure, page 53 -- 3. Disrupting Zimbabwe's silenced pasts through art : a conversation with Owen Maseko / Amanda Hammar with Owen Maseko, page 75 -- 4. The 'dissident' in fiction and non-fiction : history, imagination, and the intimate violence of nation-making / Jocelyn Alexander, page 97 -- 5. Whose great betrayal? Strategies of self-defense in Ian Smith and Joshua Nkomo's political memoirs / Astrid Rasch, page 117 -- 6. Rewriting legacy : the end of Robert Mugabe's rule in four nonfictional texts / Lena Englund, page 143 -- 7. Voicing silences and healing haunted pasts : Petina Gappah and Elleke Boehmer in conversation / Lena Englund and Astrid Rasch, page 162 -- 8. Memory and the political uses of the past in digital Ndebele nationalism / Mphathisi Ndlovu, page 179 -- 9. Chimurenga file(s) : memory, mockumentary, parody and politics in Zimbabwe / Pedzisai Maedza, page 205 -- 10. (Ir)reconcilable pasts? Postcolonial apology to British child migrants -- the case of Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial College / Katja Uusihakala, page 233 -- 11. Politics as war : five historical myths about Zimbabwean Cold War politics / Timothy Scarnecchia, page 256. |
| Abstract | "Zimbabwe is a country whose longer past and shifting post-independence politics have both included violent histories, as well as often violent contestations over history itself. The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe addresses the many ways in which pasts are variously experienced, remembered, claimed, denied or contested by differently positioned actors, and how this in turn shapes the politics of the present. It explores how such contestation is expressed: in literature, art, and the media; through exhumations and reburials; in state apology and political myth making; and in both traditional cultural heritage sites and the making of new national symbols"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "The anthology originates out of a series of workshops under the title 'Politics of the Past' (held online in 2021 and in Denmark in 2022), which were part of a larger initiative, 'Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa' (funded by the Nordic research councils)."--Introduction. |
| General note | Collection of essays by Shari Eppel and 13 others. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Politics of the past in Zimbabwe Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] 9789004728004 |
| LCCN | 2025004923 |
| ISBN | 9789004727991 |
| ISBN | 900472799X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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